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And Finally ... Kenny gives new meaning to the term dumb blond

Frank Fitzgibbon

September 21 2003, 1:00am, The Sunday Times

The main opposition parties are failing to make serious inroads into the coalition’s voter base. Not only is that bad for democracy it also plays into the hands of hard-left parties such as Sinn Fein whose disaffected supporters could hold the balance of power if sufficient numbers of voters are turned off by the traditional alternatives to Fianna Fail. But Kenny isn’t helping to address that situation.

We thought that Fine Gael’s flirtation with the lunatic fringe had been tempered by the mauling it received in the last general election when the public laughed out loud at “commitments” to compensate shareholders who lost money in Eircom and taxi drivers who railed against deregulation. Wrong.

Kenny, in what can only be an attempt to prove that…

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